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Voting rights discussed in recent bookPUBLICATION Steven Light, Associ-ate Provost and Professor, released a new text examining the social context of Barack Obama’s election.

>STEPHANIE LIDENThe Dakota Student

To vote, or not to vote? That is the question many UND students will be asking themselves this fall. Ac-cording to Dr. Steven Light, Associate Provost for Under-graduate Education and Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, “Voting is our most basic right. You aren’t American if you can’t vote.” In his newly pub-lished book, “’The Law is Good’: The Voting Act, Redistricting, and Black Regime Politics,” Light examines the Vot-ing Rights Act of 1965 and its relevance to the American public today.

He begins and ends the book in the frame of President Obama’s 2008 election. As the President famously stated in Chicago on the night in which he was elected, “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, tonight is your answer,” the United States as a whole was led to believe that racism is an issue of the past. In his book, Dr. Light addresses this idea by expressing that even though Americans are led by an African Ameri-can president, the necessity for the Voting Rights Act is still present.

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Digesting dollars

With the increase in prices attributed to the switch to unlimited plans, students may be wondering if they are really getting their money’s worth. To answer this question, one has to investigate where the food comes from. The University of North Dakota, along with the other ten colleges and universities in the North Da-kota University System, is contracted with the provider Food Services of America (FSA).

“This allows us better leverage when it comes to pur-chasing power,” says Orlyn Rosaasen, Director of Dining Services, explaining the reason behind what may be per-ceived as a distribution monopoly. According to the com-pany’s website, FSA is part of a larger company: Services

Group of America. This company is “one of the na-tion’s largest privately-held companies comprised

of businesses providing a broad array of foodservice solutions to a wide spectrum of customers.”

This spectrum of custom-ers includes elementary schools,

high schools, universities, restau-rants, hotels, government buildings

and health care facilities to name a few. Foods Service of America boasts achievements such as becoming the fi rst broadline food distributor in the U.S. to be certifi ed for its sustainable agricultural and food handling practices. Rosaasen maintains the company works with the uni-versities individually, providing food options according to each school’s budget.

“This is by no means a discount provider,” he re-ports. Rosaasen says the company must work with Din-ing Services to make the department’s approximately $12

FUNDING Dining Ser-vices explains relation-ship between UND and Food Service of America.

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Saudi student held in Fargo for questioningCONCERN The recent events surrounding an emergency landing in Fargo question fears.

>XAVIER PASTRANOThe Dakota Student

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NATHAN TWERBERG > The Dakota Student

The University of North Dakota recently made national news in the October 19 issue of The Washing-ton Post. On Sunday October 17, a plane departing from Minneapolis, MN was scheduled to land in Grand Forks, ND. On the plan were three Saudi Arabian men who were look-ing forward to their stay in Grand Forks as aviation students at UND.

According to Pablo de Leon, a UND researcher from the space studies program that was aboard the plane, the three men were stopped by two police offi cers in the Minneapolis airport and interrogated for twenty minutes before boarding the plane. After their student visas and pass-ports checked out, they were allowed onto the plane. What was supposed to be a routine fl ight became a big misunderstanding. The plane made an emergency landing in Fargo, ND after it “appeared” that a smoke de-tector in the airplane bathroom had been tampered with. Passengers were

According to research, North Dakota is projected to be short about 210 physicians by 2025, or about 15-30%. This is due to the fact that the overall population of North Dakota is aging with the Baby Boomers, those born be-tween 1946 and 1964, becoming Senior Boomers. Currently, North Dakota is second only to Florida in percentage of citizens 85 and older. The larger population of the elderly will require more care and medical needs, thus causing a medical care shortage for North Dakota. As of right now, North Dakota currently has about 50 physician openings (per Center for Rural Health, UND SMHS).

Wynne, the Dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of North Da-kota, has made a proposition that has fi ve components. The fi rst three consist of the school want-ing to add 16 additional medical doctor slots, 30 additional health sciences (physical therapy, occu-pational therapy, etc.) slots and 17 additional residency (graduates who practice in a hospital setting before becoming professional doc-tors) slots.

This increase in class sizes would help with North Dakota’s projected shortage. North Dakota can be seen as a cold, isolated place, and because of this, has a hard time acquiring doctors. Studies have shown that doctors are more likely to stay in rural areas, such as North

Dakota, if they have practiced or are more familiar with those areas. Wynne’s approach would produce more doctors at the University of North Dakota and those doctors would be more likely to stay in North Dakota. It is estimated that 45% of the current primary care physicians of North Dakota re-ceived training at the University of North Dakota Medical School.

The fourth component is a new Geriatrics training program. With the increase in medical class sizes, and the amount of new teachers needed for the new stu-dents, a building will be needed to house them. The fi fth component would include the construction

>JEFFREY STROMThe Dakota Student

UNDSMHS is expanding to offer more education opportunities to North Dakota’s future health care professionals

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World Brief15 dead after volcano erupts in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia—At least 15 people were killed and 13 injured Tuesday after a vol-cano on Indonesia’s Java island erupted, spewing clouds of hot ash, local television reported.

Metro TV said thousands of people were moved by trucks and cars after Mount Merapi started spewing hot ash and volcanic rocks just before dusk, a day af-ter authorities upgraded an alert status to the highest level.

Television footage showed residents, most wearing masks, being taken away in trucks with windscreens covered by dust.

“This is an initial phase of an eruption,” said Subandrio, head of the Volcanic Technol-ogy Development and Research Centre in Yogyakarta, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

Metro TV reported that 15 badly burned bodies were found near the house of Mbah Marijan, the man known as the keeper of the mountain, who had refused to leave his home.

It said one of them was a journalist who climbed the mountain to interview Marijan.

An Indonesian Red Cross offi cial said 13 people were in-jured and were being treated in a hospital.

Offi cials estimated up to 40,000 people were living in the endangered areas.

The 2,968-meter volcano last erupted in 2006, killing two people.

Its most deadly eruption on record occurred in 1930 when 1,370 people were killed.

At least 66 people were killed in a 1994 eruption.

Drug war tense in northern Mexico

>RICHARD MAROSILos Angeles Times

SURVIVAL Mexican convoy threads its way through strange situation in Sonora.

ALTAR, Mexico—The police chiefs met in the dusty plaza with a federal offi cial clutching a black bag fi lled with pesos: $40,000 in govern-ment pensions for the senior citizens living in the pueblos of the nearby foothills.

A convoy of seven vehicles rum-bled into the plaza, the trucks squeez-ing between taco and T-shirt vendors who gawked at the 60 or so federal and state police offi cers toting assault rifl es.

The crack squad had captured drug cartel kingpins and battled gangs from Baja California to Michoacan. On this day they slipped on their ski masks to escort the police chiefs on a mission of mercy to a lost corner of Mexico.

They would be heading deep into the scrublands of the Sonora Desert where hundreds of cartel gunmen controlled the pueblos and ambushed intruders on hillside roads that have become blood-spattered shooting galleries.

The convoy was outmanned, outgunned and probably didn’t even have the element of surprise. Cartel lookouts—they could be anybody: taxi drivers, store owners, fellow cops —had no doubt already tipped off the organized crime groups. Cell phone conversations were routinely intercepted.

“I’m talking here and the mafi a is listening,” said one commander who, like many police, residents and offi cials, spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concern.

“They already know we’re coming.”The convoy turned past the

small church and the local newspa-per offi ce, its windows blasted out, and ran every red light and stop sign leaving town.

This is Mexico’s hidden drug war.

Ciudad Juarez and other vio-lence-torn urban areas may rack up large body counts and capture head-lines and presidential visits. But here in the northern part of the state of Sonora, two of Mexico’s strongest drug cartels are waging a battle for scores of human and drug traffi cking routes into Arizona that may be just as sinister.

One of the gangs is using a slow, bloodless strategy of patience over confrontation: It’s trying to starve out its rivals.

The result is a siege of medieval proportions that has cut off a region about the size of Rhode Island from government services, and severed a lifeline to thousands of ranch hands, storekeepers and retirees. Few dare leaving on the roads, and even fewer brave going in.

“Nobody will guarantee my secu-rity,” said Juan Alberto Lopez, a con-sultant who was supposed to drive up into the foothills for meetings with pueblo offi cials. “They told me they would come down to Altar,” he said. “But they haven’t shown up.”

The war escalated this summer when gunmen from the Beltran-Leyva cartel took over the string of pueblos and ranch lands stretching 50 miles from Altar to the Arizona border. Their foes from the Sinaloa drug cartel have since surrounded them. They patrol the four main winding roads leading in and out of the hills and block almost all food and gasoline shipments.

There have been massacres and scores of kidnappings, but the war

has gone largely unnoticed because of its remote location, intimidation of the media and the slow-motion tactics.

“The problem is that one gang is hiding out, very well concealed,” said a high-level Sonora state law enforce-ment offi cial. “And the other group wants to get them out, to restore con-trol over that area.”

Caught in the middle are an es-timated 5,000 people who every day wake up with questions: Were there any kidnappings overnight? Have the gunmen taken over another ranch? Are there any tortillas in the store?

One grandmother in Saric, grief-stricken over the kidnapping of three sons, said she tried to get help from the mayor, but he hasn’t been seen in days.

She’s losing hope: “Our town is dying.”

Before heading out on its 40-mile journey into the foothills, the convoy took over all the pumps at a Pemex gasoline station. The offi cers bought sodas and chips, and stuffed them into their bag lunches; food might be scarce along the way.

The police chiefs shook hands with some of the offi cers. It wasn’t clear whether they were greetings or

wishes of good luck..Few reporters have ventured

into the area, and public offi cials re-fuse to provide much information, fearing retaliation. Since September, two mayors, a police chief and at least 11 offi cers have fl ed, joining hundreds, perhaps thousands, of residents who had also abandoned the region because of the tightening siege.

Hungry, encircled gunmen have invaded ranches to slaughter cattle. They roam pueblos in large con-voys, kidnapping people and tossing their tortured bodies into the road. Many residents stay indoors when night falls, avoiding contact with the Beltran-Leyva gunmen, and stay off the roads for fear of being stopped at highway checkpoints run by the Sinaloa gang.

“We’re living desperate times here. They’re not letting supplies through. ... We’re down to basics, beans and potatoes,” said one long-time female resident of Tubutama, a pueblo perched on a mesa and known for its white-washed mission church and plaza, where locals and visiting Americans on mission tours once sipped drinks and listened to bands on summer nights.

Mexican Federal Police guard the 1691 whitewashed mission church in Tubutama, Sonora, Mexico.

Tsunami hits Indonesia, kills at least 113DISASTER An earth-quake-triggered wave destroyed ten villages Monday.

>SUNIKO HARISUMARTO AND AHMAD PATHONI

McClatchy Newspapers

JAKARTA, Indonesia—At least 113 people were killed after a tsu-nami triggered by a powerful earth-quake slammed into villages on In-donesia’s Mentawai islands, offi cials and aid workers said Tuesday.

The Disaster Management Agency in West Sumatra province said 10 villages on the island chain were swept away by waves as high as three meters caused by Monday’s 7.2-magnitude quake.

Mujiarto, head of the Health Ministry’s Crisis Centre, said the latest information from Mentawai

showed “113 people were dead and at least 150 others were missing.”

But the Indonesian Red Cross put the number of missing at 502. It said in a statement that 2,000 fami-lies were displaced and nine boats were unaccounted for.

The National Disaster Man-agement Agency said most of the deaths occurred in Pagai Utara and Pagai Selatan districts.

Authorities had lifted a tsunami warning one hour after the quake and initially said there were no re-ports of casualties or damage.

“The information came late because communication was dif-fi cult,” said West Sumatra disaster management chief Harmensyah, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

The Health Ministry said doz-ens of homes were swept away or destroyed by a tsunami minutes af-ter the quake, where waves reached as far as 600 meters inland and sub-

merged dozens of houses.On Pagai Utara island, up to 80

percent of homes in Betumonga vil-lage were destroyed, leaving “many people” missing and feared dead, he said.

Andi Arief, a presidential aide in charge of disaster relief, said re-lief workers were en route to the Mentawais to provide emergency assistance. A boat trip to the islands takes about 10 hours from the pro-vincial capital Padang on Sumatra.

The Mentawai chain consists of 70 islands and islets with a popula-tion of about 68,000 people, 150 kilometres off the western coast of Sumatra.

Experts have for the past two years warned that a massive under-sea earthquake was likely to occur in the future beneath the Mentawais and could trigger a deadly tsunami similar to the one that devastated Indian Ocean nations in December 2004.

That tsunami killed more than 230,000 people, including about 170,000 in Indonesia’s Aceh prov-ince on Sumatra.

A magnitude-7.6 earthquake hit Padang and neighboring districts on Java in September 2009, killing more than 1,100 people.

Monday’s quake was also felt strongly in several areas of western Sumatra, causing panic among resi-dents in Padang.

Indonesia sits on the so-called Pacifi c Ring of Fire, where conti-nental plates meet, causing earth-quakes and volcanic eruptions.

Authorities evacuated thou-sands of villagers from the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano on central Java island Tuesday after scientists upgraded its alert status to the high-est level on Monday.

A 6-month-old baby died and at least 13 people were injured when the volcano spewed clouds of hot ash.

DON BATLETTI > Los Angeles Times

At 9 months, 2010 still tied for hottest year

At the end of its ninth month, 2010 is still tied with 1998 as the warmest year on record for the same period when land and sea surface temperatures are combined.

A report from the National Climatic Data Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows the combined global average temperature was 58.67 Fahrenheit, 1.7 degrees above the 20th century average, from January to September.

It was the second warmest for land surface temperatures alone for the same period, be-hind 2007, and also the second warmest for ocean tempera-tures alone, behind 1998.

And while 1998 was the warmest for the January to September period, the over-all warmest year was 2005 because of a late-year surge, NOAA says.

COMMentAry04 >commentary

There’s a defi nite buzz among the college crowd. Two of our favorite late-night talk show hosts are teaming up and trying to restore some sanity to this nation (or fear, if you’re of the Colbertian tendency). Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are hitting the national mall for a rally that has gleaned attention from almost every major news source, politicians of all sorts, academics, Oprah Winfrey (an outspoken rally advocate) and even President Barack Obama, who appeared as a guest on The Daily Show this past Wednesday—the fi rst time a sitting president has ever appeared on the show. It’s the Rally to Restore Sanity.

Why is this important? Well, for one, it’s funny. In a country where Glenn Beck fi nds it necessary to announce either a speech, movement or rally of some sort every month, a parody of such overboard political involvement is defi nitely humorous. As Jon Stewart says, what sort of people can earnestly participate in the political process as often as these pundits hope or believe we can? Some of us need to go to class, take our kids to soccer practice or just in general be normal, rational human beings. The Rally to Restore Sanity is poking fun at the concept of a rally in the fi rst place.

But humor is just the tip of the iceberg. This rally is making a commentary on several things. First, it is try-ing to send a message to our media—a message that says extremists are not the only people who should be rep-resented in the news. If it’s not the tea partiers calling Obama a Muslim, it’s a liberal who’s left the Democratic camp because they think Obama hasn’t gone far enough. And of course, these people must be yelling for the story to make it on TV; moderate, rational discussion is never accounted for, and the rally is trying to show that there is a huge percentage of reasonable Americans who are not being represented by these extremist camps.

Another message that is being sent to America through this rally is that we, as a moderate people, are not okay with how America is being run—in a highly politicized way that is split completely down party lines. Most Americans do not think in this sort of way. Our fi rst question is not “what political party do you belong to?” And if the answer is the party we don’t identify with, most of us don’t yell “We hate you, you [insert: Socialist, racist, Muslim-lover, Christian-hater, redneck etc.]!” Most of us note our dif-ferences, go on our merry way, or, in some case, even focus on the issues, rather than the party. We ask the questions, “What makes you pro-choice?” or “Why don’t you believe in health care reform?” These types of conversations are far more productive, and this is what the rally is sponsoring.

Jon Stewart has been named the most infl uential man of 2010, and there is not doubt that it’s because his humor illuminates truths about our society. The rally is one more way to fi nd reason and rationality. It takes place this week-end, October 30, and will be broadcasted live on Comedy Central. See what everyone’s been talking about.

DS Viewlate-night Politics Stewart and Col-bert promote their weekend rally.

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Pomeroy right for students

Every year someone invariably writes about the need for students to go out and vote, as if students are somehow the only population that doesn’t realize it is election time. I won’t insult you by reminding you to vote, as I’m sure that will be covered at some point. However, I will caution you to focus on the issues that affect students the most, especially when de-ciding on whom to choose as our State Representative.

This year, we fi nd ourselves choos-ing between Congressman Earl Pome-roy and challenger Rick Berg. As someone who claims no party identi-fi cation, I can honestly say that as a North Dakotan and UND student, I cannot fi nd a single reason to vote for Rick Berg on Election Day.

An examination of their voting records reveals a sharp discrepancy between Congressman Pomeroy and Mr. Berg in terms of what they feel to be in the best interest of North Da-kotans, and more specifi cally, North Dakota College Students. When Earl Pomeroy was voting to provide in-surance coverage for oral, health and hearing services and equipment and supplies for children under 21 (HR 3962 p. 106), Rick Berg was voting against expanding children’s health in-surance in North Dakota.

When Congressman Pomeroy was working on a farm bill (HR 5384) that supports our family farms and provides the certainty they need to prosper, Rick Berg was voting “NO” on legislation that would limit an-nual state property tax increases (HB 1449) and reduce state income tax (HB 1279). While he did vote to lower corporate tax rates (HB 1255) that same year, as the director of the Northern Plains Capital Corporation (and owner of 40,000 shares of its common stock) this vote saves Berg, and other wealthy corporate execu-tives like him, a great deal of money come tax time. His record supporting big business is clear; even as he refused to make it easier for average North Dakotans to pay their property taxes, he voted to make it easier for banks to

profi t by selling your private fi nancial information.

Further, as an allegedly pro-life candidate, Berg has voted “NO” on initiatives supported by the North Dakota Right to Life 80% of the time, against legislation that would prohibit the state funding of abortion (HB 1494), signifi cantly restrict the ability for minors to receive abortion without parental consent (SB 2181), and was one of 10 ND legislators to support SB 2539 (which would have funded abortions under Medicare).

On the other hand, Pomeroy’s consistent support for bans on the use of federal funding to pay for abortions (H. Amendment 509) and of partial-birth/late term abortions (HR 760) has made him demonstrably more Pro-Life than Berg. While Berg would argue this isn’t true, citing his support

for the abortion ban that had no en-forcement mechanism (making it less effective at stopping abortion than the paper it was printed on), his refusal to support a bill that would have barred insurances companies from denying coverage to domestic violence victims by classifying domestic violence as a pre-existing condition does not strike me as a pro-life stance.

However the most compelling factor involves not simply each can-didate’s opinion on the issues we care about, but what each candidate has actually done for students at UND and across our state. On this issue, there is absolutely no comparison between Congressman Pomeroy and Rick Berg.

Congressman Pomeroy supported an education bill (HR 3221) that in-creases Pell Grants by $2.73 billion dollars, establishes $6 billion in fund-ing for Perkins Loans annually, and $2.02 billion for school facility reno-

vation and repair. He also supported a stimulus bill that has provided jobs at our university improving our school’s energy effi ciency while making us more environmentally friendly. Most importantly, he supported legislation (HR 3962) that increases the age limit for students underneath their parent’s health insurance plan. Now when you graduate from UND, even though you won’t have a job, at least you’ll have health insurance, which wasn’t the case before this bill.

However, where Earl Pomeroy has supported North Dakota students by providing us the federal assistance we need to ensure our successful educa-tion, Rick Berg has done absolutely nothing to further the interests or support the latent potential of the university students that are the future of our state. Berg has consistently cut funding for UND and other state uni-versities and voted down caps on state tuition increases. Most recently, he voted against a Higher Ed budget (SB 2003) put forward by Governor Ho-even, a fellow Republican, that would have increased ND Higher Ed fund-ing by 79% to $765 million, provided some $19 million in student fi nancial aid (an increase of $13 million from the previous budget) and capped the rate of annual tuition increase at 4%. To put the cherry on top, even with a $700 million surplus, Berg voted down a bill that, with a $25 million investment (or 3.5% of the surplus) would have covered the 65% of the cost of tuition for every North Dakota student who scored higher than a 23 on their ACT attending a North Da-kota college.

In this election, only one candi-date has done anything that has actu-ally helped students. Only one can-didate has consistently stood for the issues and concerns that we care about as North Dakotans. When you go to Vote on November 2nd, cast your vote for Earl Pomeroy, because he’s the only candidate who has actually made a difference on the issues that matter to you. He’s clearly the best man for the job.

>DAViD bArtAThe Dakota Student

DS> David Barta is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at david.barta@und.edu

‘Pomeroy’s [voting record] has made him demonstrably more Pro-Life than Berg. David Barta

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05the Dakota Student tuesday october 26, 2010

There are fewer leaves on the trees and even more Ugg boots than usual trudging across campus, which must mean that au-tumn is drawing closer to winter. This time of year also brings a frightening holiday that, for many college students, includes death-defying stunts of inebria-tion and scary, scantily-clad costumed people.

Halloween began as a pagan celebra-tion, but after blending with religious customs and other traditions, it devel-oped into the secular holiday we have today. For many, Halloween consists of costumes, parties and spooky stories. For me, Halloween mostly consists of an excuse to eat as much candy as I want. However, if you know me well, you will know that I do not usually sit around and wait for an excuse to eat large amounts of candy, so I have no personal infatuations with the holiday of Halloween.

When I was younger, however, Hal-loween was one of the most exciting days of the year. I loved visiting my neighbors (which were anyone who lived within a five-mile radius of my family’s farm) and getting candy simply for uttering the simple phrase, “Trick or treat!” The best part about trick-or-treating in our sparse-ly populated rural area was that instead of one mere piece of cheap Bubble Yum, you were handed an entire small bag of a variety of candy. One neighbor even put money in each bag.

My all-time favorite costume as a child was a homemade version of a bag of Jelly Belly jellybeans. I pierced a huge, clear plastic garbage bag with holes for my legs and arms, then filled it with many col-ored balloons and, of course, myself. It seemed suitable to dress up as candy for a holiday that, for me, centered on sugar. I might even go so far as to say that that year, my costume was “sweet.”

As a dance teacher, I love to canvas my younger students the week before Hallow-een to see what kind of creative costumes they (or more likely, their parents) have come up with if they celebrate Hallow-een. So far this year, the most popular choices are witches and princesses. Then again, those are the most popular choices every year for that age set. However, one of my youngest students is incredibly ex-cited to go trick-or-treating this year as a chicken. I wish I had thought of that when I was five.

I wish I could say that my innovative ideas for Halloween costumes persist, but unfortunately, I become less creative each year. My peers seem to have the same problem. In fact, I have noticed an inter-esting phenomenon: not only have Hal-loween costumes become less creative, they also seem to be utilizing less fab-ric. And for college students, Halloween seems to be less about the sugar in candy and more about beverages that contain lots of sugar.

Hopefully, if you are celebrating Hal-loween this weekend, you will do so safe-ly. Otherwise, what is known as a spooky, eerie holiday may actually become liter-ally scary. So, be careful, stay safe, and have a happy Halloween. Now, I need to go work on my chicken costume.

Growing up with Oct. 31

My magnetic poetry calendar, on the October page, suggests that I walk the streets and consider the history of the neighborhoods and the life they contain, even if the carriers have faded. For this reason, fall is my favorite season because it seems to present an appropriate setting for the contemplation of these life histo-ries with the changing of the leaves and the brisk, cold air in the wind.

I love the old neighborhoods of Grand Forks. Before the lease began on my cur-rent abode, I stayed with an elderly rela-tive in her turn-of-the-century home. Even though I have explored the house to its innards, I still cannot seem to shake the feeling that I am missing out on at least a few well-kept secrets. That is to say, I am not expecting to find evidence of a scan-dal, just that the house might offer up a shred of tangible history. My assumptions are backed by several strange experiences I have had in the last several years, occur-rences that one might label as paranormal.

I realize that by writing about this top-ic, I might be removing any credibility I ever had, but I cannot resist the alluring call of the tantalizing blend of history and the paranormal. I think I am so drawn to the mysterious marriage because I am un-der the impression that I can uncover a few secrets about areas of which I am so fond.

Since we are on the topic, allow me to throw UND into the mix. I love UND and its campus for many reasons, but its paranormal past is easily near the top of the list. I have been poking around, on and

off, in its history since high school. One Halloween, one of my teachers

told my class about a personal experience in one of the buildings on campus. I was instantly hooked. Her story pertained to a suicide in the former president’s house and I used this limited information in a super-ficial search, although I was unable to find anything relevant.

During my first month at UND, I started looking again, and was quite surprised to discover that the building of the paranormal was immediately outside my residence hall doors in the form of one J. Lloyd Stone Alumni Center. Who knew?

Spurred on by the find, I wandered around campus on a haunted tour, pick-ing up bits and pieces of stories about academic buildings, dorms and Greek housing. Intrigued, I stumbled across an online database of old university photos and began to construct a mental map of history through buildings and paranormal encounters.

Last year, as the leaves fell and pro-vided a satisfying crunch when crushed and the atmosphere shifted to that almost moody tone matching the overcast skies, I was drawn to the fourth floor of the li-brary, hoping to have a go at the collection of newspapers in an attempt to find some old Dakota Student articles on a particu-lar haunting. All I had to say was “haunt”

and the librarian knowingly handed over a thick folder marked “ghosts.” The col-lected materials were interesting, but I was disappointed in the presence of only sec-ondary sources.

I have since determined that the process of acquiring firsthand stories and experi-encing the rumors is much more organic

and fitting of the nar-ratives. The thrill and fear conveyed and the excitement of the en-counter do not trans-late well in textual format. There is noth-ing quite like moni-toring Gustafson Hall from a rooftop across the coulee while tell-ing its story, nothing like catching a per-

formance at Burtness Theatre and realiz-ing with a jolt of terror that it is probably the most active location for ghostly activ-ity on campus, nothing like walking the tunnel between Wilkerson and West Hall alone and nothing like strolling by the J. Lloyd Stone Alumni House during the early morning hours after a horror movie and glancing into its stained glass windows hoping for a glimpse of the ballroom.

And so I will do as my calendar sug-gests for the rest of the month and walk the sidewalks of campus, wondering about both the old and new buildings and re-flecting on what they have seen.

Roommates: taking the good with the bad

Almost every college student has had a roommate at one time or another. Some of us have had great roommates. Most of us have had bad roommates. While every-thing is usually peachy in August, after a few months that dude you share living space with is probably starting to get on your nerves. Af-ter being crammed into a 300 square foot dorm room together for a few months, strange com-plaints start to emerge, like “he chews too loud” and “I’m really getting sick of her Justin Bie-ber infatuation.” Most roommates fall into a few different categories, and I’ve lived with them all.

There’s the party animal who views col-lege as nothing more than an opportunity to get plastered seven nights per week. Usually this type is a freshman who hasn’t been in school long enough to be placed on academ-ic probation. This is the guy who stumbles home at all hours of the night, happy as a clam and drunk as a skunk. Back from a fun night of carousing, he wants to play Super Mario with you at three in the morning. He doesn’t care that you have a test at eight. He just wants to have a good time.

The next day, the party animal will prob-ably still be snoozing when you come home from class at noon. He’ll accuse you of be-ing rude because you’re trying to vacuum

the carpet in the middle of the afternoon while he tries to sleep off a hangover. Then, at night, he’ll offer you a shot of bourbon. You’ll politely decline because you’re writing a paper (it is Tuesday, after all) and he’ll call you lame and wander off to happy hour.

While a party animal can be tough to live with, the type-a bookworm can be just as dif-ficult. This is the roommate that complains because your music is too loud, even though

you already put on head-phones in an attempt to appease her. She’s the one who will eat you alive if you forget to put your drink on a coaster, and god help you if she catches you leaving dirty dishes around. Good luck trying to watch TV if she’s studying, and if you happen to stumble

in at three in the morning wanting to play Super Mario she just might call the police.

A newly emerging roommate type is the gamer. This is the guy who is glued to his xbox all night, playing some shooting game online with twelve-year-olds from around the world. He wears one of those headsets so that every time he kills the bad guy all of his other online friends can hear him scream “BOOYAH!” Most gamers play all night, so good luck getting any sleep while he’s in the living room screaming about how he got sniped by the black ops squad.

An absentee roommate is far and away the best roommate you can hope for. The absentee is deeply in love with her boyfriend (they’re going to start a life together after college) and therefore spends every living

>AnDy kinneArThe Dakota Student

moment at his apartment. While she techni-cally resides with you, she’s never there. She doesn’t make a mess, she doesn’t make noise, but she always pays her half of the bills on time. The only caveat of the absentee room-mate is that if she breaks up with her “soul mate,” you’re going to have a mess on your hands.

A roommate with rich parents is like hitting the jackpot. Although rich kids are frequently party animals, their material be-longings usually make up for it. The rich roommate usually provides a giant, high definition TV for you all to enjoy, and daddy pays the cable bill because his little angel can’t survive without HBO. The rich room-mate will usually have a lake home for you to enjoy on spring break (for free), and whenev-er mommy and daddy come to town they’ll take you out to eat at some ritzy restaurant. You’ll be sitting there trying to figure out which fork to use and thanking your lucky stars the two of you were assigned to live to-gether for freshman year.

Love them or hate them, roommates are a part of college life. I’ve had great room-mates (a few) and horrible roommates (far too many). I haven’t gotten along with all of them, and I learned long ago that high school friends make terrible apartment-shar-ers. Someday I’ll probably grow up and rent a one bedroom apartment for myself, but right now living alone is too expensive. Right, my options are share a house with four idiots or live in a van by the river. The van looks bet-ter every day.

‘The rich roommate will usually have a lake home for you to enjoy on spring break... Andy Kinnear

Columnist

DS> Andy Kinnear is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached andrew.kinnear@und.edu

Local Halloween haunts>MADi whitMAn

The Dakota Student

‘I am under the im-pression that I can uncover a few se-crets...

Madi WhitmanColumnist

>eMily burklAnDThe Dakota Student

DS> Emily Burkland is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at emily.burk-land@und.edu

DS> Madi Whitman is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at madisson.whitman@und.edu

06 NEWS friday october 29, 2010

Two measures for ND votersGOVERNMENT Citi-zens to determine use of oil revenue and a ban on paid killing of animals.

>BRANDI JEWETTThe Dakota Student

Apart from selecting candi-dates, those eligible to vote in North Dakota this year will find two measures requiring their at-tention as well.

The proposed Measure 1 would direct 30 percent of tax rev-enue received from oil and natural gas profits to a legacy fund. Mon-ey in the fund would remain un-touchable until July 1, 2017 and could only be accessed through a two-thirds vote in both legisla-tive houses. If passed, legislators could only spend 15 percent of the fund’s principle balance each biennium.

Evan Andrist, Student Gov-ernment’s State Governmental Affairs Commissioner was pres-ent at the North Dakota Student Association’s last meeting where the association passed a resolu-tion supporting the measure, and co-authored a similar resolution passed by Student Senate this past Sunday. He believes the measure would benefit Higher Education,

providing financial support for fu-ture North Dakota students.

According to information An-drist received from the state tax office, the projected tax collection for the next biennium would to-tal around $632 million. If Mea-sure 1 passes, $190 million of that amount would be placed into the legacy fund this July.

Opponents of the measure, such as the North Dakota Policy Council, a self-described bipartisan think tank, believe it would lock away this taxpayer money instead of giving it back to tax payers in the form of tax cuts. Others believe the fund will never be touched because reaching a two-thirds majority would be impossible due to parti-san lines.

The second measure on the ballot would ban the paid killing of specific captive game animals. Referred to as high-fence or canned hunts by measure proponents, it would make this type of hunting a class A misdemeanor. The ban would not apply to government agencies attempting to control an animal population, prevent or con-trol disease or taking other autho-rized action.

Advocates of the measure be-lieve it would protect North Dako-

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POVERTY A simulation will help people see how it feels to live off a se-verely limited income.

>ALLEE MEADThe Dakota Student

We often joke about being poor college students, but how poor are we really? How many of us on cam-pus have cars, cell phones, laptops and iPods? Just the fact that we’re attending college in the first place shows that we must have some money, but what about the people in the community who don’t have the same privileges?

According to the latest census, “[t]he number of people in pov-erty in 2009 is the largest number in the 51 years for which poverty estimates are available.” The UND Social Work Department is raising poverty awareness for its students this Monday by hosting a welfare simulation in which the 17-stu-dent class of Social Work 454, along with other students and fac-ulty, will be learning how it feels to live for a month on welfare.

The welfare simulation is tak-ing place from 1:00 to 5:00 in the Memorial Union Ballroom. All students, faculty and staff are wel-come to participate, with the un-derstanding that they must commit to all four hours. There are only a handful of spots still available, so those who are interested should

send an email to welfare.sim.und@gmail.com as soon as possible.

The facilitator of the event is executive director of North Dakota Community Action Partnership Ann Pollert of Fargo. Her job is to assign roles to everyone in the simulation. About 22 people will be bankers, social workers, pawn brokers and grocers, to name a few. Some people even will be play-ing the roles of police officers or thieves.

The rest of the participants will be family members living below the poverty line. Some might be single parents, teenagers, children or married couples. These partici-

pants will be given vouchers for food and gas and other slips of pa-per representing items such as tele-vision sets, cars or microwaves.

Before the event begins, par-ticipants will receive an introduc-tion and briefing. The simulation represents one month of living on welfare, with each “week” last-ing 15 minutes. Between these 15-minute sessions, family mem-bers will regroup and discuss what they have or don’t have. After the “four weeks” have passed, everyone will gather together to discuss their

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Trying welfare for four hours

07NEWS the Dakota Student

Graduating in four years, can UND do it?DEGREE Completing studies on time is impor-tant, and UND is going to help students get there.

>ChRiStaliN CaSiNaDERThe Dakota Student

Colleges across the nation are pushing for students to earn their bachelor’s degrees in four years, which will save thousands of dollars in tuition and expenses. The Univer-sity of North Dakota is on board.

According to Paul LeBel, Provost and Vice President for Academic Af-fairs at UND, four year graduation rates are a priority not only for col-leges, but policy makers, parents and of course–students. “This is an important goal for UND because we strive to keep students on track and stay on the right path to success. We take our job very seriously–a big part of that is to train people for careers and the workforce and produce citi-zens and leaders of the future.”

Undergraduate students at UND usually take about 4.8 years to complete their degrees, which is comparable to the national average. However, UND is working toward improving this rate, and with it the overall college experience. Provost LeBel said the university wants to ac-tively participate in broadening their students’ horizons and providing a supportive environment for them to grow and lay out a vast array of intel-lectual, social, cultural and athletic opportunities that fit together and ensures that a student “leaves with a degree fully equipped and poised to take on challenges as well as adapt to different situations.”

UND is working on a number of strategies to make sure that gradu-ation rates improve and that students are aware of the fact that this is a pri-ority for both parties (the institution and the students themselves). The Undergraduate Learning Working Group has been established to focus on this issue, and in particular, to find ways to make the first year college experi-ence challeng-ing and engag-ing–which to UND is the big picture. LeBel said, “When students are engaged and excited about college, they willingly do what is necessary to complete their degree on time and fulfill their goals.”

Malith Silva, a UND student said, “To me, graduating with a de-gree in Commercial Aviation in four years will allow me to join the work-force and pursue my dream career. I have wanted to be a pilot all my life

and I think it motivates me to fin-ish as soon as possible. Graduating on time will also save my family a lot of money in tuition and other expenses.”

Another strategy is to improve academic advising and recognize early warning signals that a student is becoming disengaged and is not

on track aca-demically. The university is working on identifying the behavior of stu-dents who are facing a tough time staying on track and ways to intervene ef-

fectively. Steven Light, Associate Pro-vost for Undergraduate Education, mentioned that it is important to identify these warning signals during the semester so that students can be approached with help in time to im-prove. A fully integrated advising sys-tem where there is appropriate com-munication among the advising and academic programs will contribute

towards increasing graduation rates. LeBel says that UND is the right size to carry out these activities and improve graduation rates as a result. “We are as student centered an un-dergraduate program as I have seen in this kind of research facility.”

It is also important to make sure students are well-prepared early on for college and what is expected of them, starting in high school. Students who are not academically prepared to enter college result in an automatic raise in the time to completion of their degree. Yet an-other useful strategy is to enhance the interactions between student and faculty for student and academic success. When students learn how to learn, they will be more focused, pre-pared and equipped to take the best advantage of higher education.

An issue that needs to be tackled is helping students with life issues. Light said, “There are a number of reasons why students find their time to completion (of their degree) in-creasing and often it is not their fault. For instance, students may have to work more in order to support a

family, there may be serious health and life issues that can affect a stu-dent’s academic success.” LeBel feels that it is necessary for students to fo-cus on the highest priority at the mo-ment but also advises students not to let these issues become an obstacle in pursuing their education.

UND’s solution to combating increasing graduation rates is to look at the big picture. When students are more engaged in the university experience by doing work related to their field of study, their passion for these fields are fueled and they will automatically complete the degrees at a higher rate. Light said, “Time to completion is a by-product of fully engaging in the educational experi-ence, getting involved on campus, internships and networking. It is a result of the overall experience.” Be engaged, engrossed and enthusias-tic, our graduation dates will arrive sooner that we think.

‘We strive to keep students on track and stay on the right path to success.

Paul LeBelprovost and VP, Academic Affairs

DS> Christalin Casinader is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at christalin.casinader@und.edu

08 NEWS friday october 29, 2010

experiences and the emotions they felt.

While the simulation is great experience for anyone planning to work directly with impoverished people and families, Assistant Pro-fessor Barbara Kramer of the UND Social Work Department said that the lessons learned in this event ap-ply to everybody.

“Poverty affects every one of us,” she said.

Kramer has participated in two welfare simulations and said that the experience is an emotionally-draining eye-opener. One mistake many participants make is focus-ing so much time and energy on paying bills and pawning items for extra money that they forget to buy food for their families.

“By the end of the simulation you’re just exhausted,” Kramer added. “You can’t imagine doing this for a month, let alone five years.”

The welfare simulation is spon-sored by the Social Work Depart-ment, Social Work 454, the Social Work Club and Phi Alpha, and the National Social Work Honorary Society.

Social Work students have also created a window display in the Memorial Union with more infor-mation on poverty so that students can see the many effects poverty has on everyone’s life.

ta hunting. North Dakota Hunters for Fair Chase (NDHFC) a non-profit organization, warn voters on their website: “Penning selectively bred, hand raised, hand fed deer and elk inside an escape proof fence and selling a guaranteed shot at the ani-mal threatens our hunting heritage.”

NDHFC reports animals be-come accustomed to human contact, and this contact “dampens the ani-mal’s wit” making it an easy kill for hunters paying for their experience.

On the other side of the issue are those fighting for personal property rights. Citizens to Preserve North Dakota’s Property Rights believe that Measure 2 would infringe on prop-erty owner’s rights to freely use their private land. They argue North Da-kotan’s have a right to live off of their land, and game farms are a means of doing so.

The organization also maintains game preserves are well managed and do not present a cruelty issue.

“Game producers raise healthy animals in a safe environment and must monitor them closely in order to be in compliance with existing state law,” claims the group’s web-site.

The group does concede certain hunts are specialized to the hunters’ abilities such as young, first-time hunters, elderly hunters for whom movement is difficult and the physi-cally challenged.

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DS> Brandi Jewett is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brandi.jewett.1@und.edu DS> Allee Mead is a staff writer for The

Dakota Student. She can be reached at allee.s.mead@und.edu

million budget go far without com-promising the quality of food served to students. Though it may seem Dining is provided with a vast budget it is comparably smaller than budgets of other entities on campus. This year athletics has an operating budget of $15 million according to the uni-versity’s 2010 revenue budget. One of the university’s main attractions, the aviation program, receives in the neighborhood of $32 million. One of the more substantial receivers, the university’s Energy and Environ-mental Research Center, is allocated $43 million for its services.

According to Rosaasen, the de-partment uses all of the funding. Any profit is used for maintenance and facility improvements. Leftover money is also used for debt retire-ment. For example, the renovation of the Squires dining center was not paid for entirely by Dining’s budget. Loans were taken out and are cur-rently being repaid.

Dining Services is hoping to receive state grants when it comes time to renovate the Wilkerson din-ing center within the next five years. During construction, Dining Ser-vices will be moved to Smith Hall’s Room 40. A dining center in a pre-vious life, this room will once again fulfill its duty of feeding students until the renovation of Wilkerson is complete.

DS> Brandi Jewett is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brandi.jewett.1@und.edu

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Earl Pomeroy visits UND to meet students and faculty and share his platform. Dem-NPL offered pizza and free shut-tles to students who were interested in voting early.

NATHAN TWERBERG > The Dakota Student

IT CAME FROM cOllege

starring Patrick evans as the Ghost hunter Dirk hanslavenErin Lord as the saucy Penelope pygianwith matthew roy as the whimsical johnny daydreamand nicholas gowan as the ghoulish madman of Merrifield 300

direct-ed by the

incomparably evil master of cinema scares—the mack daddy of mayhem—one Mr.

Joshua Brorby

the tale of

The academic apparition

They said your children would be safe... They said this was a place of learning....But what they didn’t tell you... COULD KILL YOU!

FRIGHTS!SUSPENSE!TRUE stories!

“The tales contained herein —the tales accompanying this modern master-piece of movie horror—are almost as shocking as the original It Came From

College movie itself. Brorby edits the tales down to the essentials with his grasp firm around the neck of storytelling; Lord’s chaotic prose is matched

only by her chaotic mind; Roy is spellbinding, trance-like; Evans knocks readers dead; and Gowan, the Madman, spins a thread of golden fiction from

the false annals of history. If It Came From College was masterpiece theatre, then this collection is its terrifying cousin —the skeleton in the closet of fic-

tion itself!”

—Mike Tom, ghost editor, DS

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DS gives up the ghost

Who you gonna call? The DS editorial staff. Well, actually, we don’t really need to be called, since we’re already here, in our office, with the ghosts.

After a spectacular power point presentation that would maybe earn a C on our high-school English topics presentation (a C for Creepy Cool!) that got a few editors in touch with their super-natural sides, we decided to utilize Chris Moon’s (what a spooky last name!) ghost and ghoul expertise and perform a meeting with the spirits in our photo room. We had no telephone to the dead, but we did have a soon-to-be local ce-lebrity with us, and I think both things are adequately equipped to excite the nonliving.

We used an extremely high tech device to record the meeting, one that is able to play messages back from weeks or even months past and let us know when it’s “funky pants day”—the sports ed-itor’s droid. Can we say that again with an inflection in the middle? DroooOOIIIIiidddd! Much spookier. We took our positions.

Two guys, two dolls—luck be a lady tonight and show us some ghosts. We each took our turns and asked the ghosts to reveal themselves, which they might have done had I not been concentrating

on the super spooky typewriter sitting in the office that is at least 40 years old. Thankfully, we had Moon’s mantra still in our minds, and we knew we must make the ghosts materialize through magni-fied playback and alliteration.

So we scrambled back to the main office, and once we pushed the playback button, not only did I hear four sultry voices tempting the nonliving out of their slumber; we heard response. There was no doubt in any of our minds—no doubt—that there was some defi-nite “tap a rap tap tap” and some “scratchy scratch scratch” going on that could not be accounted for by any of the living bodies.

Where did these ethereal sounds come from? Who was try-ing to contact us? We were forced to consider the ever-looming pres-ence over us all that we never want to talk about, because besides be-ing spooky…it’s sneaky—very, very sneaky. The spirit was none other than Mike Tom, the Patron of Pagination, the Baron of Bylines!

We shuddered with sheer spook, disbursed around the office, flail-ing wildly mad like grad students with no audience for their preten-sion (Arrrghhh but listen to my analysis of postmodern pastiche!). Mike Tom! We swear we weren’t actually going to wire from MCT; it was just a thought, just a fleeting idea—we would never actually do it! And that trapped white space? It was an accident, we swear it! We didn’t mean to make that poor kid think he won enough Hugo’s prize money for entire life rations! Mis-hap! Please, please Mike Tom…stop the haunting!

Things have mostly gone back to normal since that spooky Fri-day night. Is it eerie when it’s si-lent during production? Well, of course. But we know not to ever wake the Lord of Leveled Lines again. Not until next Hallow-een…

OFFICE Ghost editor Mike Tom rattles chains at the DS office, saying, “I’m so sneaky.”

>ERIN LORDThe Dakota Student

DS> Erin Lord sleeps in a coffin and hates garlic. She can be reached at erin.lord@und.edu

For years rumors have circu-lated about the ghosts that live in UND’s Burtness Theatre. Although there have been few sightings in the past few years, there have still been many signs of paranormal activity throughout the theatre. Although most of this activity is friendly (playing pranks on staff, welcoming new staff, etc.), and luckily nothing has affected production, there is no denying that something strange is going on at the Burtness.

One of the most famous ghosts or spirits that inhabits the Burtness Theatre is Stu. Stu was an electric technician at the Burtness in the 1970’s who specialized in lights and sounds. None of Stu’s visits are malicious and mostly just pranks on the students who are managing

This one’s a fright!BURTNESS A series of spooks and spec-ters simpers through school’s theater.

>MATThEw ROyThe Dakota Student

lights. When digging for informa-tion on the ghosts at Burtness The-atre, I had a chance to talk to Loren Liepold, the Technical Director at UND’s Department of Theatre Arts, who wanted to remind people that “these are real people and they want to treat them with respect.” No doubt a good a thing to remem-ber, since there have yet to be any disturbances during performances.

Another one of the Burtness’s most famous paranormal inhabit-ants is a woman dressed in Victo-rian era clothing. While there have been very few sightings of her, her presence is still felt. According to Liepold, about two to three years ago, when a new costume designer was working in the Theatre, he be-gan to smell baked potatoes, cook-ies and bread; this was considered a sign that the ghosts were welcoming him to the Burtness. She may have made an appearance as soon as a few nights ago when a few people at the Burtness heard a woman’s voice

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11CULTURE&MEDIAthe Dakota Student

The J. Lloyd Stone Alumni Center is probably the most in-teresting building I’ve visited at UND. After Chris Moon deghost-ed it a few weeks back (I saw him do it while his mom drove by in a van), the Alumni Center can offi-cially declare itself unhaunted. But that doesn’t make it any less inter-esting—quite the contrary. By not having the stigma of a haunting

attached to it, this quiet building on the corner of Oxford Street and University Avenue can and should be more utilized as quiet, creaky study spot for students. Becky Greer was kind enough to show me around and give me a tour of the building on Tuesday this week.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of ghosts, one must be imagined. One night in the late 1930s as war was looming over Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the campus residence for the President of the University of North Dakota. After dedicating a new grandstand at the fairgrounds in town, Presi-dent Roosevelt had stopped by the John C. West residence. President of UND until 1954, West in-tended to show Roosevelt a good time. The night’s delirium ended with Roosevelt getting excited and spilling some of his homemade yo-gurt on a bed sheet in the master bedroom, which is now the direc-tor’s office. The 500 thread-count Egyptian cotton sheet, which is dark blue, takes the form of a tra-ditional ghost and haunts its way from room to room looking to be washed. After Roosevelt’s embar-rassing mess, he got anxious and hid the bed sheet somewhere in the house.

The basement is the most frequently haunted place by the stained Presidential bed sheet. Originally, the Alumni Center had been set for demolition when Gamble Hall was going to be built. Fortunately, it was saved by con-cerned alumni. An added benefit is that the Alumni Center has a tun-nel (now blocked off with shelving) in the basement linked with Gam-ble Hall. In what used to hold live-stock, the basement now primarily serves as more office space. Spotted around the same time every night, the ghostly sheet can be heard mut-tering about internment camps and segregation. It is believed that the basement is most often haunted because Franklin hid the bed sheet under the bedding meant for pigs. Perhaps it was thrown out with the rest of the detritus when the Alumni Center was going through one of its remodelings. Deb Wil-son, Annual Giving Officer, whose office is in the basement, said that she hasn’t seen any ghosts (espe-cially the haunted bed sheet...) but had informed me of the surprises the tunnel is likely to offer.

The spacious simulacra of the original living room that exists is also a common place to find the bed sheet bemoaning the state of the United States during the depression/post-depression era. Renovated to have pieces similar to what would have originally been in the building, it is now filled with some donated furniture that has a similar look to what originally had been there. If you ever have a chance, try bringing a Ouija board into the old dining room. If you come by the haunted sheet, make sure not to anger it by bringing up equal rights for women.

The phantasm of Franklin Roosevelt

>NIChoLAS GowANThe Dakota Student

DS> Nicholas Gowan is a screaming skinless body. He can be reached at nicholas.gowan@und.edu

hALF-TRUTh Now, dear reader, prepare yourself for a work of fiction that threatens to bleach your hair the very color of bone—prepare for a yarn that has truly been woven with the threads of fate! —J.B.

Gustafson is one of the lesser-known buildings on campus. It’s a tiny building without any classes, and if you ask most students about Gustafson, they’ll ask where it is. It houses offices for distance learning and continuing education, but it also houses a ghost named Gus. Ru-mors have surrounded Gustafson for years about the ghost, and many who have worked in Gustafson have experienced some kind of ghostly activity.

Lynette Krenelka, the director of continuing education, said that she had a run in with a ghostly pres-ence while she was working on her doctorate. She came in on a Sunday afternoon and heard the sounds of furniture being moved around on the third floor. She checked, but no

Here’s a twisted tale!GUSTAFSoN This chill-ing account of Gus the ghost is sure to scare the socks off of you.

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one else was in the building. She just grabbed her keys and got out of the building as soon as she could. She is not alone in her experience.

There is a story about one of the building’s facilities technicians. He would come in every night with his radio and play it while he worked. One night he was on the third floor when the radio turned to static. He didn’t think anything of it and went to go adjust the antenna. On his way he was startled when he saw a young man standing near the water cooler. The facilities technician asked the young man who he was. Instead of answering, the young man vanished without a trace, and the radio be-gan working again. After that night, the technician refused to work in Gustafson anymore.

In 1999, Tanya (who used to work in Gustafson) brought in her five year old son, Korbin, to meet a coworker. She told her son the ru-mors about Gus the Ghost who lived in the attic. Korbin wanted to go into the attic to see Gus, but Tanya explained that the attic was locked and only maintenance and house-

keeping staff had the key. She took Korbin up to the door so he could see for himself that it was locked. They tried the door and it wouldn’t budge. Korbin then asked why they didn’t try the key. Tanya explained again that she didn’t have one, but Korbin said he saw one hanging next to the door. Tanya was taken aback and looked, but didn’t see any key. She decided to humor him and said he should try it to see if it would work. She watched as her son mimed picking up a key and us-ing it in the door, but she was flab-bergasted when the door unlocked. Korbin opened the door and yelled up to the attic to Gus, but there was no response. Tanya said he should lock the door again and watched as he mimed locking the door and putting the key back next to the door. Tanya then tried the door for herself, and no matter how hard she tried, it wouldn’t open.

Officially, Gus the Ghost has

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left in a closet after consuming too much alcohol. In 1981, the build-ing was renamed Gustafson Hall, and rumors abound that it failed as a dormitory because students were too frightened of the specters that already lived within its halls. Stop by Gustafson if you feel brave enough; those who work there are happy to share their experiences with Gus.

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but failed to discover where it was coming from. Origins of this woman are speculated to be traced back to the late 1800’s at UND. The Burt-ness Theatre was built next to Davis Hall, which was the first residence hall at UND. It is believed that this woman died in the late 1800’s of an unknown sickness at Davis Hall and has since decided to inhabit the Burtness.

While Stu and the Victorian era dressed woman are two of the Burtness’s most famous paranormal

residents, there have been other in-stances of paranormal activity that can’t quite be traced back to them. Last week while taping a show for the archives, the cameraman was tapped on the shoulder, and when he turned around there was no one there.

Another incident tells the story of a set designer who was painting the set afterhours. When he went to check the sound equipment, he plugged in his formerly fully-charged iPod—nothing happened, and the iPod’s battery had been drained. At the same time, the prop master heard voices coming from behind him. When he went to investigate

the noises, he found no one.Ghost hunters should view the

Burtness Theatre as a great place to study paranormal activity on the UND campus. While most of the activity has been friendly, the Burt-ness staff has many interesting sto-ries of sightings and incidents that have happened there throughout the years.

Maybe this year’s Halloween will stir up some more excitement over there.

DS> Patrick Evans is Frankenstein’s monster, sans neck-bolts. He can be reached at patrick.evans@und.edu

never been seen. Some ghost hunters have even been brought in to try and find evidence of Gus. They set up microphones and video cameras on all the floors. They supposedly recorded au-dio of some voice saying, “Shh, they’re coming” that couldn’t be explained. Aside from some star-tling encounters, Gus appears to be a friendly ghost. No one has ever been injured by any spectral

incidences and nothing seems to break due to the phantoms.

Despite the current benevo-lent nature of its spirits, Gustafson has a deadly history. Gustafson was originally fraternity house Phi Delta Theta. Then, in 1918, Gustafson was converted into a temporary hospital because of an influenza outbreak. 29 students died in Gustafson’s third floor “death room” during the outbreak. After the epidemic, Gustafson once again became a frat house, but in 1963 a student died when he was

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>Inside: Belfour to be honored, Women’s soccer split games, Denver previewDS

>scores &schedules

UND vs Lamar10/30 @12 p.m.Football

@ USDVermillion, SD 10/29 @ 3 p.m.

MHKYSoccer

Jocelyne Lamoureux and Mo-nique Lamoureux-Kolls are a part of a hockey bloodline that has had five family members play for UND. They’re Olympic medalists and transfers from the University of Minnesota. Let’s get to know the twins.

Tadd Powers: Even though growing up in Grand Forks, your father, your brother, J.P, played for UND and your brother, Mario, was heading there for the upcom-ing season... In your senior year at Shattuck-St.Mary’s, what were the factors in choosing the U of Minnesota over UND or other schools?

Monique Lamoureux-Kolls: When we were choosing a col-lege, UND was in the middle of a coaching transition. We weren’t really comfortable with going to a team that was in a big transition. At the time, the U was the best fit for us, and we had a lot of fun,

Jocelyne Lamoureux- At the time we were deciding where we wanted to go to school our junior year, UND wasn’t in the mix be-cause there was a coaching staff

turnover and it was up in the air as to who would be taking over.

TP: What made you trans-fer? Or how was the topic brought up to transfer to UND? ML: We didn’t consider trans-ferring until after we came home for the summer, and there weren’t any previous talks about it, but it didn’t take long to come to a de-cision. We knew that we had the opportunity to put a program on the map and make it better than it had ever been. With that comes a lot of pressure, but we love hav-ing that on our shoulders.

JL: The big thing that made me want to transfer was knowing the type of tradition and culture the Fighting Sioux men’s program has, the type of coach we would getting out of coach Idalski, and the program he was trying to re-build was something I wanted to be a part of.

TP: For those who don’t know once you transfer schools, you must sit out one year. Was there a plan in place, where playing for U of M for one year, trying for the NCAA Na-tional Championship, then trans-fer to UND because you could play for the Olympics and still be

a sophomore next season? Or did this all just work out somehow?

ML: We never went to Minne-sota with the intention of transfer-ring. Playing for the national team had nothing to do with why we went there in the first place, and it didn’t have anything to do with why we transferred. When we trans-ferred, we weren’t guaranteed a spot on the Olympic team. We could

have gone to try-outs and not made it, and then we would have had to sit out a year. Knowing that, we knew that we had to train and skate harder

than we ever had. We didn’t want to be in a situation of not making it and wished we would have worked harder.

JL: There were no plans to transfer after our freshman year. It is the hardest decision that I have had to make and the phone calls that had to be made were not fun ones. After finding out that we could carry out our red shirt year through our Olympic year, it was a no brainer decision for me. I en-joyed my time at Minnesota, but when something is right for you, you just know and UND is the right fit.

TP: Monique, you two show great chemistry on the ice for ob-vious reasons; playing on the same team for so many years and the fact that you are sisters would help as well, but have you two ever not been on the same team?

ML: Jocelyne and I have only not been on a team together one time. Jocelyne got invited to play with the US team for the four na-tion’s tournament. For me, I knew that to make the world tourna-ment, how I played during the college season mattered more than this tournament. Don’t get me wrong, it was really hard seeing my sister make the team when we both work so hard, but I was still happy for her.

TP: Are your parents traveling to Minnesota or Bemidji (Mario’s Game) this weekend?

ML: My Dad and Godfather came to our games in Minnesota, and my mom went to Bemidji. My parents watch games on the inter-net when they can, and they go to all of our home games, as well as Mario’s. I think Jocelyne and I have helped decrease the amount of traveling my parents do through-out the season.

JL: My dad was able to come to Minnesota and my mom made the trip to Bemidji.

TP: Obviously competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Van-couver, you two won silver medals,

where are those today?ML: I keep my medal in my

room. I don’t keep it anywhere spe-cial.

JL: Mine right now is in my drawer where I keep all my head-bands. When it’s not there it sits next to the picture of when I was about to receive it.

TP: What’s planned for life af-ter college, the 2014 Olympics?

ML: After college, I want to go to another Olympics and then start a family. As far as a job is con-cerned, I don’t have that planned.

JL: The 2014 Olympics fall right after our senior year, and then depending on what I decide to do as far as hockey and a real job will be to be determined.

Fast Facts:Monique Lamoureux-KollsJocelyne Lamoureux

Most Hated Class?ML: ChemistryJL: Most classes are boring

Favorite NHL PlayerML: Jarome IginlaJL: Henrik and Daniel Sedin

Most Star struck Person you’ve met?

ML: Shaun WhiteJL: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Before Game Meal?ML: Peanut Butter and JellyJL: Mostly a good nap in

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INTerVIeW A staff writer asks the questions we’ve all been wonder-ing about the twins.

DS> Tadd Powers is a staff writer The Dakota Student. He can be reached at tadd.powers@und.edu

Interview with the Lamoureauxs

‘...when something is right for you, you just know and UND is the right fit.

Jocelyne LamoureuxUND Forward

vs. Denver10/29 @ 7:37 p.m. M&W CC

@ GWC FinalsEdinburg, TX10/30 @ 8 a.m.

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This weekend, North Dakota will honor one of the greatest goal-tenders, if not one of the great ath-letes, to ever come through UND. Ed Belfour, a legend that needs no introduction to any hockey fan, will be inducted into UND’s Hall of Fame during intermission of Fri-day’s matchup against Denver at Ralph Engelstad Arena. The team will honor him by wearing match-ing Belfour uniforms for warm-ups, and Belfour will drop the first puck.

“It’s a fitting tribute for one of the greatest players to come through our program,” said head coach Dave Hakstol.

He played just one season for UND, in the 1986-1987 campaign.

But Belfour made that one count.Belfour played behind the

“Hrkac Circus,” one of the best overall teams that North Dakota has ever seen. Behind the likes of Hobey Baker winner Tony Hrkac and Bob Joyce, Belfour helped lead North Dakota to their fifth national championship, and along the way amassed the most wins in a season by a goalie (29) in UND’s history, and the third-highest save percent-age (.915). Both marks stand today.

Belfour’s achievements in goal will no doubt earn him a trip to the NHL Hall of Fame in a few years, too. Belfour is the third-winningest goalie in NHL history (484 wins). The workhorse netminder from Carman, Manitoba played seven-teen full seasons with the Black-hawks, Panthers, Stars, and Maple Leafs before retiring in 2007.

But, amidst the celebration of a former goalie, current goalies Brad Eidsness and Aaron Dell—who to this point have shared duties in net—hope to overcome what was a tough weekend in Maine last week.

Eidsness was pulled Friday night

after giving up three goals in on just five shots. In came Aaron Dell, who gave up four more in that 7-3 de-bacle in Orono. Dell gave up four goals Saturday night too, but that was on 35 shots.

Most of all, Hakstol emphasized that last weekend was a learning ex-perience for both.

“You have to be ready at all times. Maine was a more ready team to start that game than we were. When Aaron went in, one learning lesson there was that you always have to be ready. You have to be ready to go out and be ready for your team.”

It would be easy to say that both Dell and Eidsness, whose .914 save percentage in his rookie season came within a sliver of matching Belfour’s ’87 percentage, have not found that same success so far in ’10. But to Hakstol, more than just individual

effort is responsible for Eidsness’ (.762) and Dell’s (.883) save per-centage thus far.

“I don’t think they’re off track,” said Hakstol. “They just have to go back and do their job like the rest of the team.”

Hakstol commented that the team effort plays a large role in a goalie’s success, and that every-

thing needs to get better from last weekend’s sweep.

“It’s a spot-light position, if you’re down 3-0 in the first five minutes of a hockey game, that’s where

the spotlight goes. But things work hand and hand with the goaltend-ing and the team in front of him.

“You could look at the start of the game for Brad and say, we need a couple saves from him to give us a chance to get back into the hockey game. But it goes the other way too. We didn’t give our goaltender much

of a chance to get into the hockey game,” Hakstol explained.

North Dakota (3-2-1, 2-0-0 WCHA) hope to get back on the winning track this weekend, but that’s easier said than done against a team like Denver (2-2-2, 1-0-1 WCHA). The last six meetings have all been decided by two goals or less, dating back to the weekend of Denver coach George Gwozdecky’s infamous stroll across the Ralph ice two seasons ago.

Defenseman Ben Blood knows how tight they have to play if they hope to put away the Pioneers, who bring plenty of talent to Grand Forks this weekend even though they lost last year’s top line of Rhett Rhakshani, Tyler Ruegsegger, and Joe Colbourne.

“I think we know they’re go-ing to be close games,” said Blood. “They always have a lot of offense, so it’s really important to be sound defensively.”

UND set to honor Belfour this weekendDENVER The Men’s hockey team will host their first home series over this weekend.

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DS> Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at timothy.boger@und.edu

‘They just have to go back and to their job like the rest of the team.

Dave HakstolHead Coach

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>Kyle ROSSeauThe Dakota Student

CORNeR KICK Team drops a game to Utah Valley but find success against Houston Baptist.

UND women’s soccer splits GWC

The UND women’s soccer team lost a close battle Friday 1-0 against Great West Conference opponent Utah Valley at Bronson Field. The Wolverines of Utah Valley (7-6-1, 4-0-0 GWC) scored in the second half and remained unbeaten in con-ference play.

The loss dropped UND to a .500 record in conference play at 2-2-0 and 2-12-0 overall.

In the 61st minute of the game, UVU goalkeeper Lauren Sack sent a free kick down the field and was chased down by fellow teammate senior Nichole Archibald-Spencer. She passed two UND defenders and scored on a goal 10 yards out, just past diving UND goalie Monica Sti-erman. The goal would be the only one in the game for both teams.

UND head coach Kristen Gay had a few words on the difficult loss at home. “We had a few chances on some corners to put one away, but we just could not get anything past their goalie.”

UVU’s opportunity came from Brianne Larsen who sent a laser right on goal but was deflected by Stier-man.

In the first half, UND’s defense held UVU to fou shots on goal. In the second half, things would change drastically against UND.

UND was limited to shots on goal in the second stage of the game, getting none on goal, while UVU had three and one for a goal getting a 1-0 victory. UND had three corner kicks in the second half but couldn’t produce. Stierman finished the game with six saves.

UND would quickly forget about this loss, beating Houston Baptist Sunday afternoon at Bronson Field on Senior Day. An early goal for UND would pace the women to a convincing 3-1 win and clinch a second place finish in the West divi-sion of the Great West Conference.

It would not take long for UND to put a goal on the scoreboard. Two minutes in, sophomore defenseman Caitlyn Hairing scored from just past midfield. It was the only goal of the 1st half and was unassisted. HBU would be dominated by the UND defense, getting off just six shots in the half.

In the second half, when enter-ing the game for the first time fresh-man forward Amanda Dahl would score the second goal of the game at 57:07. She was assisted by junior for-ward Rachael Loomis (Fargo, ND).

A little over two minutes from the second goal, UND would put another in the net. Junior midfielder Kelsey Zachman sent the ball to se-nior forward Alex Zarling (Fargo, ND) who would score at the 59:38 mark.

Brandi Hart would score HBU’s only goal of the game at 61:46. UND goalkeeper Monica Stierman finished the game with four saves.

DS> Kyle Rosseau is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at kyle.rosseau@und.edu

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assisted in exiting the plane while the three Saudi Arabian UND students were detained by police, placed in the back of police cars, and ques-tioned for several hours. After police searched the plane, they found noth-ing to be wrong and bussed the pas-sengers to Grand Forks. The three students were kept in Fargo and were picked up by Chuck Pineo, chief op-erating officer and executive director

of the UND Aerospace Foundation who works with welcoming new incoming students. Considering the given circumstances, this must have been a “welcome” that the students will never forget.

Mosab Bajaber, president of the Saudi Students Organization, had some things to share about the rais-ing of awareness of other cultures on the UND campus. “I think the International Center is doing its best to promote a better understanding of cultures,” said Bajaber. “How-

MED > From page 1

DS> Jeffrey Strom is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at jeffrey.strom@und.edu

of a new health sciences building. The building is estimated to cost $28.9 million. The building would sit directly south of the current Medical School.

This proposition would greatly help the State of North Dakota. “The most important return is tak-ing care of the citizens of North Dakota with optimum health care,” stated Dean Wynne. This proposi-tion would also provide stimulus to the North Dakota economy. “The reward of this investment is a healthier population and an eco-nomic stimulus that has a return for each dollar invested.” For every dollar this is appropriated to the Medical School, it is estimated that there is more than a dollar is match-ing funds from the Federal level and from grants. These funds all pro-vide stimulus to the North Dakota

economy, as they provide money that North Dakota would not have without the Medical School.

For this proposition, the Medi-cal School requests funding from the North Dakota legislature. “We cannot do this without support from the state.”

This proposal has already been passed through the Advisory Coun-cil of the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences and approved by the State Board of Higher Edu-cation. Currently, it is at the Legis-lative level.

If this proposition is accepted at the Legislative level, the expansion plan would begin in 2012 with the Class of 2016. The effects of this plan would be seen in 2019 when the first expanded class would enter the workforce. This is six years shy of the 210 physician shortage.

ever, there aren’t many international students here compared to other US universities.” When asked about the reception of international students, Bajaber had this to say. “I haven’t heard of any hostility towards Middle Eastern or Muslim students. It seems North Dakotans are polite and ob-servant in nature.” Chuck Pineo was unavailable for an interview.

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FLIGHT > From page 1

DS> Xavier Pastrano is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at xavier.pastrano@und.edu

DS> Stephanie Liden is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at stephanie.liden@und.edu

He claims, “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is the most important civil rights law in U.S. history.” The Act prohibits states from im-posing any “voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” Specifi-cally, Congress intended the Act to outlaw the practice of requiring otherwise qualified voters to pass literacy tests in order to register to vote, a principal means by which Southern states had prevented African-Americans from exercising the franchise.

Today, Dr. Light claims there are still ways in which people in a position of power can prevent mi-nority races from voting.

“Imagine you were a minority and voting was scheduled to take place at a school in your commu-nity. Then when you get there, the school is empty,” said Light. In the

not-so-distant past, the times and places where voting was scheduled was changed at the last minute and the minority public was not noti-fied.

“Now it is published in news-papers where and when the voting will take place. Thanks to the Vot-ing Rights Act,” said Light.

In a more broader sense, the Civil Rights Act has an influence over anyone who votes. The Act has touched the lives of all those thinking about the way elec-tions are organized and the effect the Electoral College has on the weight of votes. In reference to the upcoming reestablishment of elec-toral lines across the country after the 2010 census, Light stated, “Six months from now, you will say, ‘he was right.’”

Light centers his book around the Louisiana town of Tallulah. Data and communication from Washington D.C. to Tallulah is depicted in the book to show how the Voting Rights Act aided the small community of 8,000 in drawing electoral district lines that allow people of minority race to

gain representation and vote. Light stated, “Tallulah shows

us how there would be no black representation without the Vot-ing Rights Act. It forces changes in behavior.” He emphasizes the effect law has on society which gives way to the inescapable over-tone throughout the topic of Civil Rights and throughout the boo—the great power of government and law. Light discusses the different ways one single act can be used to better the whole country.

“It’s not just the law; it’s who interprets it,” notes Light.

When asked if he had a certain audience in mind for this book, Light stated, “It’s general. I also wrote it with a classroom in mind. I wanted to tell a story about how the Civil Rights Act came about and why it’s important. . . I thought about how to make a complex topic still learnable for students of math, science or any subject that isn’t political science.”